Hi Rick, Tuning the cache is someone of a black art, but the ISA Server team really came thorugh recently with a great article on performance best practices over at: ISA Server Performance Best Practices: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/isa/isaprfbp.asp?fram e=true Check it out. One thing I would change right now is the update frequency. Set them to "normal" unless you have a clone army for employees :-) HTH, Tom Thomas W Shinder www.isaserver.org/shinder ISA Server and Beyond: http://tinyurl.com/1jq1 Configuring ISA Server: http://tinyurl.com/1llp -----Original Message----- From: Kincer, Rick [mailto:Rick_Kincer@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:35 AM To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List] Subject: [isalist] Any Idea on Performance? http://www.ISAserver.org Hello, I am in a real bind.... Does anyone have information a tweaking the performance of ISA and the cache? I have read many articles but none that is helping. Our configuration consists of: ISA Enterprise edition in Integrated mode 2 Compaq servers Load balanced with RainWall Win2K Advanced server PIII 2@500 MHZ 2 GB Memory 29000 Megs of cache. Inside NIC is GigaBit Outside NIC is 10/100 running at 100. Caching is set to 40%, No Less Than: 50 Mins., No More Than 1 Day Active caching is set to "Frequently" At times the performance is horrible! I can verify this by bypassing ISA and go directly to the web and see a large difference in performance....I really don't get it. MS has looked over our config. from a past issue and said our config. was good. I am having a rough time finding a bottleneck here, I had better performance from MS Proxy 2.0..... ANYthing would be helpful at this point. Thank you, Rick ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=isalist ISA Server Newsletter: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/newsletter.asp ISA Server FAQ: http://www.isaserver.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Exchange Server Resource Site: http://www.msexchange.org/ Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this ISAserver.org Discussion List as: tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send a blank email to $subst('Email.Unsub')